Every hour is crucial when searching for distressed migrant boats off the coast of West Africa. The long route and harsh ...

Traditional Dambe boxers traded heavy blows before a cheering crowd in north-western Nigeria on Thursday. The centuries-old ...

Senegal's largest university said Thursday it had suspended student associations after violent demonstrations over ...

Matchmaking websites are in their hayday in Kano, a conservative hub in northern Nigeria. It's not uncommon for women in the predominantly Muslim city to marry at 18.

The Senegalese navy has launched a large-scale search operation to locate three sailors who went missing after their patrol ...

The bodies of two Nigerians fighting for Russia have been found in eastern Ukraine, the country’s authorities said Thursday.

Liberia's supreme court has reaffirmed that Tweah and several ex officials are not protected from prosecution under claims of national security council immunity.

Malawi has started a vaccination programme across the commercial city of Blantyre after derived poliovirus was found in sewage samples.

On Thursday, exiled Malian imam Mahmoud Dicko Dicko urged an end to the jihadist violence engulfing the Sahel countries, insisting, ‘we must find a solution for the entire sub-region’.

Access to electricity in Africa was a central topic at the recent World Governments Summit in Dubai. While hundreds of millions of Africans still live without power, new solutions are emerging, ...

Romance in Zimbabwe is taking strikingly inventive forms, reflecting life in an economy where cash reigns supreme and sustainability gains new social value.

At least 38 people were killed when a cyclone slammed into Madagascar's second-largest city this week, authorities said Thursday, as Mozambique braced for the storm's arrival ...